Clothespin



April 20 1926. 1,581,304 J. UNDERATION I GLOTHESPIN Filed Sept. 10. 1925 iatented Apr. 20,

UNITED s'rA To all whom it mag Improvements hereby declare clear,

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This invention relates to new improvements in clothes pins, and particuthe class of kerted wooden pins.

larly A great diiiiculty i1 pins has been that one or the other of the legs thereof breaks off, thus rendering the pin useless.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a the clothes pin whereby to prevent splitting thereof.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which tion, and which same in proper posi agalnst any tendency from.

. Other objects and advantages parent from the following description when taken 1n connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation of a clothes pin having the invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is an en tional view on the l passing through the b Figure 3 is an enlarged perspectiveiwiew. of the band, removed from the pin, and in the position assumed Figure 4 is a plan view of the band; Referring particularly to the accompany ing drawing, 10 repr wooden clothes pin,

Pins of this has means for retaining the which is kerted at 11, to provide the clothes line straddling legs 12. type often split so that one or the other of the legs 12 the pin body, thus rendering the pin useless. Various means ,have been provided for pre- JOSEPH UNDERATIOII, OF ROCKING, IOWA.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed September 10, 1925.v Serial No. 55,532.

other treatment State of Also, such previous and I do comparatively narrow and useful 1 the use oi' the ker'fed means for encircling is simple in construcend or" the keri. tion on the pin, and toward slipping thererss rarest OFFICE,

venting the splitting of these pins, but they generally require some special grooving, or of the pin to adapt them for use in connection with pins of this type.

7 devices have a tendency to become loosened, or completely detached from the pin, thus destroying their utility. The present device comprises anv elongated band of metal 13, in one end of which .is formed an opening 14, while a short tongue 15, is struck up from the other end of the body, and directed lon- 'gitudinally thereof, toward the first end of the body. The body is provided with a small nail opening 16, intermediate its length, and a similar opening 17 adjacent, and inwardly ot' the opening 14. In the tongue 15, and in the body, outwardly of the opening 14, are :torzned the nail openings 18 and 19, respectively, these openings being adapted to register, when the band is properly engaged around the clothes pin, so that a single nail 20, may pass therethrough, and into the body or the pin, just inwardly of the innerv In asembling the parts, the band is passed around the'body of the pin, so that the tongue carried end is beneath the other end.

will be ape The tongueis first disposed to extend outwardly from the body, so that it may readily enter the opening 14, when the band is drawn around the pin. The tongue is then bent to extend in the direction of the end larged horizontal seeme 2-2 of Figure 1, and.

when on the pin.

is broken away from lVhat is claimed is:

t the body so that of the body which is provided with the opening 14, and pressed agains itsopenings registers with. the opening 19, latter which small nail is passed through these openings and driven into the body of the pin. 'N ails are then driven into the body of the pin through the openings 16 and 17. The band is thus held against slipping longitudinally oi the clothes pin, and also from movement around the pin. Furthermore, effect of the band, at the, point where the pin usually splits, eiiectively preand lengthens the life llhe combination with a kerted clothes pm, of a'device for preventing splitting of the pin comprising a band engaged around the body of the pin adjacent the ken thereof, the band having an opening in one end and a second opening between the said end and said first opening a tongue in the other end of the band directed toward the first end thereof and engaged through said first opening and extending toward the first opening said tongue having an opening registerband, and a fastening means engaged through the opening of the tongue and the second-named opening of the hand and into the body of the clothes pin.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

JOSEPH UNDERATIQN.

ing with the second-named opening of the 10 

